Today in crypto, Trump family’s World Liberty stake hit $5 billion after a major token unlock, with open interest in WLFI derivatives nearing $950 million. Meanwhile, crypto funds attracted $2.5 billion in inflows despite sharp declines in …
Today in crypto, Trump family’s World Liberty stake hit $5 billion after a major token unlock, with open interest in WLFI derivatives nearing $950 million. Meanwhile, crypto funds attracted $2.5 billion in inflows despite sharp declines in Bitcoin and Ether.
Trump family’s World Liberty stake surges to $5B after token unlock
An entity tied to US President Donald Trump’s family now holds about $5 billion worth of World Liberty Financial’s governance token (WLFI) after a significant unlock on Monday.
According to World Liberty Financial’s website, DT Marks DEFI LLC and “certain family members” of Trump held 22.5 billion WLFI tokens. The company reported unlocking 24.6 billion WLFI tokens on Monday as part of a scheduled move to establish an initial circulating supply, briefly boosting the price to $0.40 before it fell to about $0.21 at time of publication.
World Liberty previously said the holdings of its founders — including Trump and his three sons, Donald Trump Jr., Barron Trump and Eric Trump — would initially remain locked. However, Monday’s unlocking effectively gave the Trump family’s stake a valuation of about $5 billion based on the WLFI price at the time of publication.
Trump and his sons endorsed the crypto company following its September 2024 launch, amid his presidential campaign. The project is one of many — along with his memecoin, Official Trump (TRUMP) and a family-tied Bitcoin (BTC) mining company — under criticism from lawmakers, saying they could be used to influence US government policies through financial ties to the president.
Crypto funds see $2.5B inflows despite falling BTC, ETH prices
Cryptocurrency investment products witnessed a strong rebound last week, drawing in nearly $2.5 billion in inflows, according to data from CoinShares. The surge in capital came after the prior week recorded significant outflows of around $1.4 billion, signaling renewed investor appetite for digital asset funds.
Exchange-traded products (ETPs) were at the center of this momentum, logging $2.48 billion in inflows. The trend highlights growing institutional and retail interest in crypto-backed investment vehicles, even as the broader market remains volatile.
Despite the influx of funds, Bitcoin (BTC) faced downward pressure in the spot market. After briefly topping $113,000 earlier in the week, BTC fell below the $108,000 mark, reflecting ongoing uncertainty in price movements.
Ether (ETH) mirrored this trend, starting the week above $4,600 before tumbling below $4,300. The declines in both leading cryptocurrencies underline the disconnect between investment flows into structured products and short-term market performance.
Trump’s WLFI derivatives near $1B open interest ahead of unlock
Open interest in contracts for the Trump family-tied World Liberty Financial token neared $1 billion just hours ahead of a partial token unlock.
Open interest on derivative contracts for the World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token neared $950 million in early trading on Monday, before cooling to $887 million, still up 45% in the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass.
The trading volume on WLFI derivatives has jumped over 535% in the past day to $4.54 billion and is the fifth-most traded crypto derivative in the past 24 hours.
The token is trading at around 34 cents on most exchanges, down from a peak of over 40 cents a week ago.
Open interest is the number of active, outstanding contracts not yet settled and shows that WLFI is seeing strong interest ahead of an unlock of around 5% of the token supply due in a few hours.
